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Isurus oxyrinchus Rafinesque 1810
Description
Isurus oxyrinchus Rafinesque, 1810.
Shortfin Mako. Reliably to 4.45 m (14.6 ft) TL (Capapé 1977); possibly to 5.85 m (19.4 ft) TL (Kabasakal and de Maddalena 2011). Circumglobal in warm waters; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Yoshino and Aonuma in Nakabo 2002); British Columbia (Gillespie 1993) to Chile (Miller and Lea 1972), and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Coastal and oceanic pelagic; depth: surface to 888 m (2,913 ft) (min.: Eschmeyer and Herald 1983; max.: Abascal et al. 2011).
Notes
Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 15, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Lamnidae
- Genus
- Isurus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lamniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Rafinesque
- Species
- oxyrinchus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Isurus oxyrinchus Rafinesque, 1810 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Capape, C. (1977) Liste commentee des selachiens de la region de Toulon (de La Ciotat a Saint-Tropez). Bulletin du Museum d'histoire naturelle de Marseille, 37, 5 - 9.
- Kabasakal, H. & de Maddalena, A. (2011) A huge shortfin mako shark Isurus oxyrinchus Rafinesque, 1810 (Chondrichthyes: Lamnidae) from the waters of Marmaris, Turkey. Annales, Series Historia Naturalis, 21, 21 - 24.
- Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
- Gillespie, G. E. (1993) An updated list of the fishes of British Columbia, and those of interest in adjacent waters, with numeric code designations. Canadian Technical Report Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 1918.
- Miller, D. J. & Lea, R. N. (1972) Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 157.
- Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
- Eschmeyer, W. N. & Herald, E. S. (1983) A Field Guide to Pacific Coast Fishes of North America from the Gulf of Alaska to Baja California. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
- Abascal, F. J., Quintans, M., Ramos-Cartelle, A. & Mejuto, J. (2011) Movements and environmental preferences of the shortfin mako, Isurus oxyrinchus, in the southeastern Pacific Ocean. Marine Biology, 158, 1175 - 1184.